The issue with Gear and many ways to fix it. | Forums

[Yumpf]

The whole base of the game is that it is skill based Directional 3D fighting. It should be 100% skill based. And yes I understand that there is 1v1 and 2v2 and I will get into why I have such a huge deal with 4v4.
Gear effects stats far more than it ever should. A rep 3 with full purples will destroy even the most skilled players on a fresh hero with 0 gear. Even if they have no idea what they are doing and are spamming swings. Revenge gain, Block damage= Huuuuge problems. Now!
I am the kind of person who has been leveling multiple heroes, No true mains Swapping between 4-5 heroes because I personally believe if you play as all of the classes you will understand and know how to fight against everything. Anyway.
The best way to level a new hero is to do challenges! And everyday a solid 80-100% of the challenges are for 4v4 Gamemodes!
Yes I've seen so many ****ing comments about "WELL YOU CAN FARM VS AI, OR 2V2, 1V1. TILL REP 3." Do you have any idea how long that takes? without challenges and any of the game modes that give massive amounts of xp? UP TO 30-50 HOURS FOR 1 HERO SO THAT YOU CAN BE ON PAR GEAR WISE. DOESN'T MATTER YOUR SKILL. OR IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER HEROES YOU'VE ALREADY LEVELED TO REP 3+.
NOW. I have 3 great ideas for fixes

-1. You can simply add a new option under the selection between vs players/vs AI/ To (Hardcore mode) or something like that that completely removes gear stats much like 1v1 or 4v4. Yes it might split the playerbase and cause longer ques. But at least people wouldn't be ragequiting the game forever and maybe it would be more accepting towards new players making the player base grow instead of dwindle.

-2.(THIS IS ALSO A FIX FOR STACKING HEROES) Change matchmaking to work by you selecting the hero you want to play, Then queuing into the gamemode. Then being put in a match as close as possible to your gear rank. As well as creating a team comp that doesn't revolve around 2 nobushi's and 2 orochis, or hell 4 warlords.

-3. I know this could never be done, because people have spent money on gear and the outrage would be tremendous from all of the people who have put countless hours and dollars into their gear and leveling so that they could have the stupidest most op Stats in the game. THAT BEING REMOVING GEAR STATS COMPLETELY.

-4. You could Nerf stats.. that actually sounds pretty reasonable. Maybe nerfing the stat percents from 50% whatever the **** it is now down to a nice 10%

DO NOT TELL ME TO "GIT GUD" I will hop on a fully geared toon and kick your sweet ***. I'm simply irritated that I cant bring my friends into the game or level new heroes without dealing with this bullcrap.

[Jimwise123]

Honestly could not agree more. Gear has to much of a pull at the moment. I think removing any sort of revenge build up from gear is a start (only from gear bonuses not from the game), because when you first start a new hero the revenge meter builds at what i consider to be a fair pace, but with added gear bonuses, its two hits revenge and then the game really in my opinion loses value as basically the whole team will leave because due to an impossibility of competing with overpowered gear stats. You should be able to be competitive with new heroes, i myself find it tiring using the same hero every game and really enjoy the fact that theres so many to play with. New heroes are on the way and it would be nice to be able to try all of them while still being competitive against geared out players.

[King_of_Strays]

Gear stats make the game so unbalanced? I can't even recommend the game to a friend because if they come in New they're at such a massive disadvantage! And revenge should be an aid in fighting in an outnumbered fight but people have their stats set up so they become practically invincible by spamming it then killing you I two helots from max health! The devs need to read your thread and fix this, it turns the game so it it's not even fun

[Mr_Gallows]

They should just make a pure list for all game types without feats and gear stats - when the regular games are empty, perhaps they'll understand that their gimmicks are really bad for gameplay.

Just try a custom dominion with no gear and feats. Plays so well and makes the regular games look like a joke.